//------------------------------// // The Lab // Story: Sense of Nothing // by GiromCalica //------------------------------// Everypony had their own life. They don't give a damn about their economy, as their source of food and materials just came from magic, teleportation and quick-growing food. Everypony enjoyed their lives, well, except for some. There were also robbers who kept stealing money from others, but somepony's momma was so poor that the robbers had to break in to her house to leave money behind, which benefits the poor one. That isn't the same life that a group of ponies will face. There was a convention expedition thing (whatever it is) and everypony from Ponyville, Canterlot and other NEIGHboring cities were grouped as different teams in it, just like Top Gear racers and engineers working together so they would win. The said expedition is all about discovering anything away from Equestria, and they all have to go from one place to another. Imagine playing Pokemon Rescue Team: Explorers of Time and Darkness and you will know what I meant about that. There they have Time Turner both as the one who started the expedition and a challenger. "Now to all who joined this sport here, I am going to group you all into seven groups." says Time Turner, "Now, for the first group..." Time passes, as a purple coated unicorn waits for her to know who her groupmates will be. Even more time passes, and she's already asleep. After hearing her name called, she suddenly woke up, surprised, with a bit of red eyes, and a surprised face. She found out that her group mates are already called, the other groups left for their adventure, and it's night. Her group mates are of the following; a goofy-eyed grey pegasus, a classical grey pony, two pegasus ponies that looked similar to each other, and even Time Turner himself. She then becomes excited, and she asks for their names. "OMIGOSH, OMIGOSH, OMIGOSH! Time Turner is with me!" "Yes. Um, don't be too happy and excited, since I'm not even a celebrity, though. You're the leader of this group, okay?" "Oh, sorry then. Um, who are my group mates?" The 2 twin pegasi then told the purple unicorn their names. Their names are Flitter and Cloud Chaser. "I like muffins." The other pegasi with the goofy eyes said. "Pardon me, I'm Octavia. I don't usually talk often." the posh mare said, with a posh facial expression. The purple unicorn then introduced herself. "My name is Twilight Sparkle." "Your name is from a book that I hate? Heh, I want your name to be 'Harry Potter' instead." said Cloud Chaser, with a chuckle. "Well your momma's a potter!" Flitter yelled with a quite vigorous voice. "Hey! We are both from the same family, remember? So you're saying your mom smokes pot too?" "I like muffins" says the goofy-eyed pegasus. "Hush!" said the frustrated Time Turner "Stop acting like mere children here! Remember we're involved in a challenge?" "Oh, almost forgot!" Twilight said. "What group number are we?" "Seven." calmly said by Time Turner. "We are assigned to go to the Everfree Forest to investigate and discover more about it." "Okay then! Let's hurry it up!" said the now confident Flitter. They went to the Everfree, a forest full of strange life and other boring shit. Just imagine going underwater and find lots of unknown marine species, like the tripod fish. As they walk towards an abandoned castle, Twilight finds a mysterious gem lying somewhere on the ground, nearby a rock. "This might be useful for later" the curious Twilight said. The Seven continues to wander around the forest, following Twilight as she knows the way around the forest. As they reach the farthest of the area, they found something that wasn't usually there; lots of hi-tech weaponry and machines lying around the ground of a campsite filled with crates and notes. "Sweet Celestia! There's so many mysteries that we can-" Time Turner covered her mouth with his right hoof and whispering "Shush! Don't you know that we might get chased by a horde of zombie ponies in here?" "Never heard of it." says Cloud Chaser, holding a decapitated head of a pony wearing a traveler's hat, which she then noticed a piece of paper taped on the said hat. "Guys! Look what I found!" Cloud Chaser flashes the paper onto their faces. "More clues for our adventure!" "Let me see that." "Time Turner rudely takes the paper with an irritated face. He looks at the paper and it reveals a blueprint of a machine with two antennas and numbers, with a button at the bottom of it. "It's a drawing of some sort. Probably a machine, as it says in the blueprints that it can allow dimensional travel from one dimension from another, even to nonexistent places." Meanwhile, Twilight and Octavia are studying about the material objects they can find from the crates. Octavia finds a rusty, old knife from the dirt floor that looks like it originated from a Mayan tribe. It's stained with blood like someone recently used it. "Oh my, how unethical." whispered Octavia, with a nauseous look. "I can't believe that they can't afford to wash their materials. I guess somepony murdered somepony here." "Or just drunk and committed seppuku." Twilight replied, following a chuckle. "Or just for fun, since ponies nowadays lack a polite manner." Octavia answered, together they laughed for a while. The two then continued digging from the tents until they found a mysterious looking object. Elsewhere, Time Turner attempts to stop the goofy-eyed pegasus from playing with the weaponry. "Derpy! That is not a toy!" shouted Turner. "I just don't know what went wrong!" replied Derpy, then pulled the trigger and started firing bullets out of its end while aimed at the sky. It ran out of bullets several seconds later, and an eagle fell down to the earth. Time Turner then puts his hoof on his face, giving a disappointed look. Suddenly, Twilight and Octavia arrives, and told Time Turner about what they found. "So you're telling me that you found a machine somewhere inside a tent?" said the irritated Time Turner. "Well, show me where it is." Twilight and Octavia galloped towards the tent they found the machine inside. As Time Turner looks at it, he was surprised when he saw what he saw from the blueprint earlier; it was the same machine from the blueprint. Old and rusty yet sturdy and functioning, he dragged the machine from the tent and viewed it outside. It was dark, but the campfire wasn't extinguished by the campers yet, meaning they were chased by somepony or something and had to leave their campsite and bring all that they can, abandoning their weapons and notes. Twilight told Time Turner that they all should leave the Everfree Forest as fast as they can before the campers get back. Time Turner agreed, lifted the mysterious machine and proceeded to leave. But before they leave, the horde of zombie ponies mentioned earlier blocked their path. "HOLY SHI-" screamed the shocked Twilight, "We must run away from here as fast as possible! Now RUN!!" "Don't panic" replied Time Turner, a bit hollow looking, "Remember the teleportation spell?" "I'm an egghead." Twilight replied, with a bereft face. She summoned the teleportation spell and bought everyone and everything back to ponyville, including most of the zombie pony horde. "You fool." Octavia whispered, with a grumpy look, "Congratulations on turning Left 4 Dead into reality, but without the virus part." Twilight, reading a book about fictional creatures, looked up and replied "You're right, but they still eat flesh, though, and their rotten smell can revive the dead, just like King Harkinian's belching whenever he drinks wine in a funeral." Twilight wasn't wrong; the filth of the zombies revived the recently deceased ponies from the nearby hospitals, creating a massive horde of zombies, attacking doctors and eating their flesh one by one, second by second, creating new zombies as the ones that were killed die, except those that lost their cerebral cortex and their spine. Cloud Chaser drops her lower jaw from the extreme awesomeness of the zombie attacks. "I guess it's time to run away, now." said the amazed and terrified Flitter. "Hey, teleportation." Time Turner said with a bit of confident look. Twilight used the teleportation spell, again, now pointing on a shorter range. The entire group teleports to Twilight's library, now without the zombies. "Thank God." Time Turner whispered, expressing relief on his face. "Now we can continue studying about this mysterious machine. Put that rusty thing on the corner. Oh, and make sure you lock the doors and windows because there's zombies out there." Twilight levitates the machine using her magic and puts it on the corner. She noticed notes taped behind the rusty machine. She takes the notes and read what it says. COORDINATES OF KNOWN LOCATIONS This is the list of codes we recently discovered that can link to other dimensions of other worlds. Lab - 001 Rusty pit - 002 Ancient - 104 Church - 218 Error - 404 not found ??? - 501 Root -552/553 Loop - 555 Hell - 666 DON'T GO IN HERE Corridor - 747 Ship - 800 Vista - 902 Altar - 966 ??? - 983 Excavation - 992 Twilight switches to another note that says something else. We have discovered a new code is available to use for us to discover. We tried CMLXXXIII and it might be something that we will expect to have life in it. We don't know the name yet, but the result of our study said that it's 'something referring to riding a horse'. We don't know yet, but I hope we get back to earth alive. -Agent 911 Twilight then read the third and final note that informs about the last thing that happened to them. I'm writing this note before something else happens. We recently decapitated a cartoon horse with rotting flesh that smells like 20 rotten eggs in a dirty public toilet with rotten roadkill above it or simply my farts in high school mixed with ammonia and You know what? Forget that. The machine that we used for a very long time had been functioning normally ever since its first use, and we didn't have to repair it, since it never broke, even if its mechanisms are already rusting and crumpling by aging. The wisdom gem inside was already depleted of energy. One of our scouts had one of it and he's lost. We can't find him though, since he had a bag full of those batteries, which each of them are enough to power up a city in a century, or even my toaster. We're starting to worry here, since several of our teammates vanished after looking for our sco The note doesn't have any more information about the events the writer witnessed, the remaining spots left are blood and pepper spray. Who is this guy anyway? A cop? "Looks like we found information here!" Twilight shouted, with a curious look. "Hush!" whispered Time Turner "Didn't you remember what I told you about the-" It was too late; the zombie ponies heard their talking from the library. Twilight, embarrassed, replied to Turner "Whoops. Sorry" smiled and chuckled a bit, before frowning. The zombie ponies attempt to open the locked door by hitting their heads and other objects, including their fellow zombies, on it, just like those huge zombies from Plants VS Zombies. Derpy, not aware of what is happening, while the others panic and hug each other in fear, said "I want a muffin". "Not now, since there are zombie ponies trying to break into our houses here!" Flitter said, with a panicking face. "Quick, Twilight! Type in a code on that machine!" the panicking Time Turner yelled. Twilight pressed the buttons, typed in 001 and pressed the button. Didn't work, though. "I read the note earlier. It said the machine lost all of its source of energy. Don't think we can find one." "We're screwed!" Time Turner yelled "We're going to become zombie food. Oh God, give us more hope and wisdom." Twilight recalled what the note said; it said the word 'gem' on it, meaning that the gem she picked up from the soil earlier could be the power source of the rusty machine. Twilight found a scroll on the table and read its contents. Twilight, if you can read this, I'm sorry to inform you that I, too, joined the expedition. I'm group 4, meaning that I'm going to the badlands with Pinkie Pie! Everypony but Applejack, the ones from the hospital, the royal guards, the gardeners, and Mr. Waddle joined the expedition. That settles everything, except I took all the food from the fridge with me so I can eat something. Sorry! I just can't resist the delicious plot sandvich you made for me. Love you Twilight! -Spike As the zombies break the door even further, Twilight then continued focusing on installing the recently picked up gem and then opens the lid of the machine. She finds a transparent gem the same shape and size of the gem she found earlier, only lighter, atop a diamond shaped outlet. Twilight replaces the worn out gem with the new one. It then glows cyan, and the numbers on the machine glow white. Twilight puts on the lid again, and then pressed the big dark grey round button. The 2 antennas, along with the round ball serving as the "grip" to open the machine's lid, emit a plasma-like electric force that strike each other for several seconds before making a flash that transports everypony to the said dimension. The group find themselves in the lab, where all the humans had left earlier. The lab is located in a 3 story building where it was destroyed after the World War I. The lab is very old yet it doesn't smell, and there's barely any dust, but still has rust. It looks quiet, and there's no exit, as the exit is probably the one that is grated by iron bars. Everpony then started a conversation. "Looks like we're in for a new adventure." said the excited Cloud Chaser. "But where do we start?" Octavia replied, worried. "Let's find some cool hi-tech stuff we can find here!" Flitter spoke, still happy and confident. "Yeah, but it's kind of dirty and my bow tie might get stained by rust!" Octavia said, still worried. "Hey! Why did you still join this expedition anyway?" the curious Time Turner said. "Because DJ Pon3 asked me to do so and I don't have any concert to join anyway, so I got bored and got here, but never knew I should leave my bow tie." "Um, I don't care." says Flitter. "EXCUSE ME?!" Octavia spoke with a loud, angry voice. "Look, nobody cares-" "But I do! And I should've known that we aren't even wearing bio hazard suits!" "We don't normally wear clothes" "GUYS!!!" yelled Twilight, which her yelling silenced the two. "Ugh, this is why I work alone." The group then camped in for a while and pick up anything they can find around them. The story continues with them working in the lab, doing experiments and find notes and Octavia's diary, reading them and studying them, and getting Octavia to beat them up for good. There's more for them to discover and challenge, as The Author had stated that the story comes from anything he can think of as time passes.